A Group of residents has asked the Mayor/City Council for $25,000 to fund a study to determine the feasibility of the City forming its own School System. CouncilmanFord: “One was done years ago . . . found out taxes would have to be doubled or tripled.”
Fairhope to Form Its Own School System?
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Hey hey Fairhope. We’ve got a left over report down here you can have, save you $25K, wait. Make that about a million. Can you imagine if we were trying to pay the street sweeper AND pay for school teachers? We thank the good Lord every day we don’t own a school system. If you don’t believe us, go a few minutes north to your neighbor. I think they might have a plan they’ll loan ya. Only one that makes anything off these “feasibility studys” is Ira Harvey.
There is no doubt an eliteness attitude towards those not living in the city limits. Besides Newton, there are students in the other Fairhope schools that don’t techincally live in the city limits. These are the same people who pay some Fairhope utilities, who bascially support the local Fairhope economy, sports etc.. There will be a number of families-students who are rooted in the system that would be excluded as not every area would be annexxed. People need to be educated about what is happening and let their voices be heard. Creating a Fairhope school system, cutting out a number of existing students is not going to make Fairhope some utopia where budget problems don’t happen, the money issues are far reaching. Property taxes go up & some people won’t be able to pay them plus losing the support in the local economy of all the people they decide not to include. If some individuals don’t like the system, move your children to private or help the county as a whole OR guarantee that every child in the system today will be included in the new system.
Where would students in the areas outside the city limits attend?
Students outside the city limits go to Perdido!
We could see the resurgence of Daphne Football should Fairhope decide to “close up the borders.”
In all honesty, most students would be split between Daphne, Robertsdale, and Foley should they fall outside of the new school district.
I am curious, Mr. Beer Man, just how do you know this? You know so much about the school system, would you consider applying for the sup’s position?? All you need is a roll of paper towels to clean up the mess!!
haha, I’m a life long resident of Baldwin County. I know the lay of the land quite well, but I am wrong from time to time. My supposition comes from the fact that there are no other “public” schools other than the ones listed in the general vicinity. Yes there is the J Larry newton school, but I’m not too sure that fairhope wouldn’t go after that one as well.
As for a roll of paper towels, I’d need a bull dozer, a wheel loader, and about 100,000 gallons of goo gone to clean up the mess the system is in. Alot of savings could be found if the local school systems would start working “with” local business as opposed to lobbying for taxes “against” local business.
did you ever have free pizza for good grades, or best attendence? While at daphne elementary we recieved such an offer from the local dominos. Why? Perhaps it was because the general manager’s daughter attended our school, or perhaps she wanted to publicity. We were kids, all we saw was free pizza.
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